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...these issues are so hypersensitive is the underlying assumption that nothing will happen. You can give a speech about freezing Social Security benefits, and be convinced it's a good thing, and be fully aware that it's going to cost you a lot politically. But then you realize, Gee, we've got a Republican President and a Democratic Congress; it's not going to happen anyway. So should I go out and put myself at political risk to do something good for the country even when it's not even going to happen? It's the same for Democrats...
...SOME DECADES NOW, THE eye-fooler William Harnett (1848-92) has been one of the most popular American 19th century painters. Everyone relishes the stories about his gee-whiz illusionistic skills and how they mesmerized Americans at the dawn of the photographic age a century ago, people less drenched in images and less blase about them than we. "So real is it," wrote a Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle...
...course, any modern fair is obliged to give frequent lip service to a kind of chipper one-worldism (110 countries have exhibits -- an all-time world's fair record!) and to environmental sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
...concerning the sexual harassment suit filed by a former DCE staff member, I feel compelled to assure all my colleagues in the division that I take all forms of misconduct seriously and you can be sure that any complaint will be pursued properly be me, by [Personnel Officer] Teresa Gee, and by any of our supervisors," the memo says...
...just a different thing we decided topull on, that we got inspired from, that we wrote.And it just happens to be that the song isprobably the least offensive-sounding, sotherefore the record company figured it would bethe least difficult thing to market as a single.It's not like, gee, guys, gotta write a single.Gotta write a pop tune. If we were to have goneinto the studio in July and said, "Let's crank outa hit single," we probably wouldn't have come upwith something like "Ratlesnake", because it'sreally not what's going on the airwaves right now.We would have...